CIAV NEWSLETTER Quarterly publication Volume 47 February 2021 Index Editorial Berenice Aguilar Prieto 3 ISC ICOMOS CIAV Secretary-General 2021-2023 Address Letter Ivan Enev 5 The Residential Vernacular Heritage of Konya and Conservation Problems Süheyla Koç 6 Refurbishment, Vernacular Architecture, and Inveted Traditions: the Case of the Empordanet (Catalonia) 17 Mónica Alcindor Social Acceptance in Heritage Conservattion in Québec, Canada: A model of how to work together on projects that are important in the heart of people´s memory Maria Inés Subercaseaux 35 Malmö/Lund Joint Conference on Earthen and wood vernacular heritage and climate change, promotion poster and contact information 38 Farewell letter from the Outgoing Vice-President Valeria Prieto 39 Farewell letter from the Outgoing Vice-President Maria Inés Subercaseaux 40 Farewell letter from the Outgoing President Gisle Jakhelln 42 Olga Sevan Obituary Gisle Jakhelln 44 YEAR 12 QUARTERLY PUBLICATION NUMBER 47 FEBRUARY 2021 Editorial By Berenice Aguilar Prieto, CIAV Member since 2020 It is a great honor to have been given the opportunity to compile Volume 47 of the CIAV Newsletter. The handover of CIAV Newsletter editorial duties coincides with the transfer to the 2021/23 CIAV Bureau. CIAV members thank Valeria Prieto for her work in producing the newsletter since 2007. Her contribution is very appreciated and gratefully acknowledged. This last year has brought sad and tough moments worldwide and will remain in our memories, as well as the impact of the resulting seclusion on our daily lives and com- munities. Due to the persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic to this day, there is a feeling that 2020 is not over yet, at least its social, economic and health calamities. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we teach, learn, express our feelings and communicate as humans. We have realized the great extent to which we depend on social media, Zoom and the internet. However, we should not take these tools and web-available data for granted since these are so often unavailable to the vernacular settlements and communities that we study. The ongoing pandemic will surely in- crease the technological gap between indigenous communities and the intellectual elites, such as our Committee. The world-wide safety measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus have halted CIAV and our members from holding an in-person annual conference, traveling to international meetings, and will likely suspend VERNADOC workshops. Further- more, the safety measures have interrupted our academic field work as professors of vernacular architecture. In this issue of the CIAV Newsletter, we have gathered introductory articles from two new CIAV members, an article about social acceptance of heritage conservation in Quebec from CIAV Bureau 2018/2020 Vice-President Maria Inés Subercaseaux, and the promotion poster of the joint Lund & Malmo Conference scheduled to take place in August 2021. Included in this issue is an address letter from Secretary-General, Ivan Enev and farewell letters from the 2018/2020 Bureau as well as happy memories of the 2011 CIAV meeting arranged in a poster shared by Maria Ines. Finally, our former president, Gisle Jackhelln, kindly wrote a heartfelt obituary to the recently passed CIAV member Olga Sevan. New CIAV member Süheyla Koç shares her experience at the restoration company she previously worked for in Turkey. She has highlighted three of the company’s restora- tion projects that involved old houses with clear and differentiated features accord- ing to their region. Süheyla points out the lack of general criteria in Turkey to restore vernacular heritage houses and that maintenance on these properties depends upon YEAR 12 QUARTERLY PUBLICATION NUMBER 47 FEBRUARY 2021 3 Index the owner's economic capabilities. Based on critical architectonic observation and Michel Foucault’s power structure theory, new CIAV member Mónica Alcindor makes a series of considerations on the refurbishment of vernacular heritage when rural gentrification is a driving factor to the process of rehabilitation. As a case study, Mónica presents insight on Catalonia’s Empordanet town and its main vernacular features. She points out that when these features are removed from their original context and interpreted from the lens of a socially constructed notion of the vernacular - a notion conformed by discourses of regional identity - vernacular features remain as surface treatments. Maria Inés writes of social acceptance in heritage conservation, specifically in Québec, Canada. She touches on the development of heritage guidelines and policies and elaborates on the importance of public engagement and collaborative design strate- gies, including examples of successful projects in Montréal. Malmö University and Kulturen Museum, under the patronage of ICOMOS Sweden, will host the international conference on "Earthen and wood vernacular heritage and climate change” at the end of August 2021. The conference will be a joint effort be- tween four ICOMOS scientific committees and its organization has been led by CIAV Bureau 2021/2023 Co-Vice President Marwa Dabaieh. A link to the conference site and general program is included in the promotion poster. The 2021/2023 Bureau has discussed the possibility of developing outlines for future CIAV newsletter contributions as well as creating an editorial committee. CIAV Bureau 2021/2023 Co-Vice President Shao Yong will furthermore serve as the editor of the CIAV Newsletter – please reach out to her or the Bureau with any suggestions. Last but not least, I am grateful to Ivan Enev for his continuous support in the process of gathering this information and the many discussions we had regarding the contents of this newsletter. I am indebted to Erin Guerra for her generous and valuable help reviewing my English. I also thank the contributors for this issue, namely Süheyla Koç, Mónica Alcindor and Maria Inés Subercaseaux. Sincerely, YEAR 12 QUARTERLY PUBLICATION NUMBER 47 FEBRUARY 2021 4 Index Dear Fellow-Members and Friends, While this should have been the last issue of our newsletter for 2020, marking a symbolic closing in a way, it now marks a new beginning, or rather — a meaningful continuation of a great tradition that has become truly inherent to CIAV. Established by our former Vice-President and Secretary-General, Mrs. Valeria Prieto, the newsletter has become our vernacular way of sharing ideas, news, headlines, and of simply staying in touch. In 2020, Valeria decided to pass over the newsletter editing to the new Bureau as of 2021. In turn, one of CIAV’s new Vice-Presidents, Ms. Shao Yong, was appointed as the new editor-in-chief for the current cycle. Our fellow- member Berenice Aguilar Prieto has kindly taken over the responsibility for compiling and editing the last issue, planned for 2020. For her stepping forward and for putting together a truly enjoyable reading, despite the challenging process of collecting publication material, we would like to extend our deep- est gratitude. The meaningful continuation of the CIAV newsletter is clearly among the strategic goals of the Bureau. Its scope was discussed thoroughly at the last Bureau meeting in Decem- ber 2020. In light of this, it is important to point out that the Bureau members do not perceive the newsletter as an academic periodical, but rather as a platform for connect- ing, reaching out, sharing and communicating within the CIAV network. So, please do not shy away from sending through any news, ideas, comments, articles that you might want to share. We count on the active engagement of each and every one of you to keeping this worthwhile tradition vibrant, and to staying actively connected – now in more ways than ever. To an extent, the uniqueness of the current issue also owes to its coincidence with the transition of the CIAV Bureau. In March 2020, following a successful online-based format for the Bureau elections in line with the new CIAV By-Laws, we welcomed our new Bu- reau members for the cycle 2021/23 — Hossam Mahdy (President, ICOMOS UK), Marwa Dabaieh (Vice-President, ICOMOS Sweden), Shao Yong (Vice-President, ICOMOS China), Ivan Enev (Secretary-General, ICOMOS Bulgaria). Later in December 2020, a new Emerg- ing Professional Representative (EP-Rep) for CIAV at the EPWG (Emerging Professionals Working Group) was appointed — Ms. Erin Guerra (US ICOMOS), who will be working closely with both Shao Yong on the newsletter, and with the new Bureau on the topics, concerning EPs. Many thanks to all authors and organisers for their energy and impetus. I take this opportunity to wish you all a healthy, fulfilling and inspiring 2021 on behalf of both the outgoing and the new CIAV Bureaus! We hope you’d enjoy this special issue and look forward to seeing you in person again soon. Yours, Ivan ISC ICOMOS CIAV Secretary-General 2021-2023 YEAR 12 QUARTERLY PUBLICATION NUMBER 47 FEBRUARY 2021 5 Index THE RESIDENTIAL VERNACULAR HERITAGE OF KONYA AND CONSERVATION PROBLEMS Süheyla Koç, Architect Süheyla Koç In Turkey, there is a rich variety of research on Turkish houses, their plan typologies, and construction techniques. In keeping with a widely accepted theory (Kuban, 1982:45), the construction techniques vary according to the region. As shown in Table 1 and Figure 1, the main types of regional techniques are as follows: masonry archi- tecture in the Southeast Anatolia Region; masonry architecture supported with tim- ber-beam in the East Anatolia Region; wooden frame architecture in the Eastern Black Sea Region; flat-roofed cubic stone architecture in both the Aegean and Mediterra- nean Regions; adobe architecture in the Central Anatolia; and masonry architecture in the east part of Central Anatolia. Apart from these, there is a common technique called “hımış” that is seen in almost every part of Turkey. It uses stone for the founda- tion work; the first floor is built as masonry and on the second floor, a wooden frame is constructed and filled with adobe, stone, gypsum, or brick.